Comrade Tsiurupa,

Sapronov from the Moscow Provincial Soviet of People's Commissars depicts a catastrophic situation with provisions in Moscow Province and insists on the necessity of increasing requisition quotas.

Establish at least a minimum norm for distribution. Intensify distribution to the peasantry, otherwise they will consume all the seeds and will not plough.

What can be done? What has been done?

Lenin

1918

Written no earlier than April

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript